Alfredo B. Crevenna – Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs ‘La invasión de los...
The Martians are invading… who will save the planet? Why Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, of course! Quote:In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly they have...
View ArticleJean-Daniel Pollet – Gala (1961)
Quote:A night in a club. The magic of little things happening and ‘dishappening’ with some kind of ironic tenderness 415MB | 20 min 13 s | 1015×432 | mkv...
View ArticleOtto Preminger – Advise & Consent (1962)
SynopsisThe setting is familiar. A Senate subcommittee meets to confirm the President’s controversial nominee for Secretary of State. A TV camera rolls. And the wolf is at the door… 1.38GB | 2:18:05 |...
View ArticleShôhei Imamura – Kamigami no fukaki yokubô AKA Profound Desire of the Gods...
Quote:The culmination of Shôhei Imamura’s extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s, Profound Desires of the Gods [Kamigami no fukaki yokubô] was an 18-month...
View ArticlePeter Perry Jr. – Kiss Me Quick! AKA Dr. Breedlove or How I Learned to Stop...
Synopsis:In this fleshy comedy-horror romp, a mad scientist aids an alien who has been teleported to Earth on a quest to find the perfect female specimen.Cinematography by Laszlo Kovacs. 1.13GB | 1h...
View ArticleGrigori Kozintsev & Iosif Shapiro – Korol Lir AKA King Lear (1971)
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the...
View ArticlePaolo Heusch – El ‘Che’ Guevara (1968)
A good old fashioned story about the Third-World’s attempt to rip off their colonial shackles. Thus far, no satisfactory roles of Che have made it to the screen (with the possible exception of Bernal...
View ArticleLeobardo López Aretche – El Grito (1968)
Quote:A documentary on the student movement in Mexico, 1968, made by film students Quote:A documentary of the conflicts that arose in Mexico in 1968, just before the Olympic Games, between students...
View ArticleOtto Preminger – In Harm’s Way (1965)
Synopsis: The attack on Pearl Harbor brings war to the U.S. Navy, and cues the varied destinies of an epic-full of colorful characters. Captain Rockwell Torrey (John Wayne) has the good fortune to be...
View ArticleDavid Cherkasskiy – Misteriya-Buff AKA Mystery-Bouffe (1969)
Quote: In Mystery-Bouffe (1918), a religious mystery play which mocked religion, the poet described a struggle between two groups, the “Unclean” working class and the “Clean” upper class. The earth...
View ArticleAntonio Pietrangeli – La Parmigiana AKA The Girl from Parma [+Extras] (1963)
SynopsisForced to leave her village because of a scandalous love affair with a seminarian, Dora looks for work and refuge in Parma, where she becomes involved with a petty criminal. Another of...
View ArticleJean Renoir – Le caporal épinglé aka The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Synopsis:‘An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic...
View ArticleClaude Chabrol – L’oeil du malin AKA The Third Lover (1962)
Quote:André Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer, working under the pen name Albin Mercier. On a journalism gig in Germany, his path crosses with that of Andreas Hartmann, another writer, who’s...
View ArticleRomano Scavolini – Lo stato d’assedio AKA L’amore breve AKA Besieged (1969)
Synopsis‘A wealthy shipbuilding family falls apart in the wake of labor unrest and economic crisis. Lorenzo is the son who returns home from college and falls in love with his mother, hates his father...
View ArticleWalter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann – Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines...
Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art:Posing as a West German TV production crew, the two East German directors of this film persuaded a former leading German mercenary of the Congo civil war (one of...
View ArticleMarlen Khutsiyev – Iyulskiy dozhd AKA July Rain (1966)
Quote:Lena is about to marry when she finds out her fiance is a bad person. After leaving him, she seeks for a sense in her life through adventures with artists who are also searching their own...
View ArticleRoland Klick – Bübchen AKA Little Vampire (1968)
Synopsis:A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It’s saturday...
View ArticleLasse Braun – Delphia the Greek (1970)
A short story on Delpha the Greek. Some information from Lasse Braun: The Official Website: In February 1977, while LB was shooting some movies in London, his archive cellar was flooded, but since no...
View ArticleEbrahim Golestan – Tappe-haye Marlik AKA The Hills of Marlik (1963)
A beautiful short by the Iranian director about the archaelogical excavations in the area of the Marlik hills. Narrated by Golestan, the film features a reflective voice-over text exploring the lives,...
View ArticleGilles Grangier – Le gentleman d’Epsom AKA The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)
Synopsis:‘Retired military officer Richard Briand-Charmery, known to all as “The Commandant”, gambles every centime he has on horse racing bets. When his luck is down, he supplies his friends with...
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